Device for supporting milk-bottles.



W. L. JACKSON.

DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING MILK BOTTLES.

A/PPLIOATION FILED AUG.14, 1909.

Patented May 17, 1910.

To all uihomrit may concern:

wnmam LEAF JACKSON, or nnoo znann, msrm'c r oncontmgira,

' pnvicn ronsurronrmo. nunx noarrmzzs Specification 01 Letters Patent.

Patent steer-9?. 2.49--

Application xnEa August m Serial x 51 2,' e 5 Be it known that I, WILLIAM liner Jac some citizen of the United States, residing at Brookland, in the District of Columbia, have invented'certain new'and useful Improvements in Devices for Supporting Milk- Bottles,-of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates-to devices for supporting milk bottles and other articles.

The principal objectof the invention is to.

prot'ide adericeof very simple construction which may be readily attached toa doorway or other support, and is designed for the reception of milk bottles or other articles.

'A further object of the invention is to provide a device of this character in which the support is of a yieldable nature and is movable from a normal approximately vertical position to an approximately horizontal supporting position under the weight of the bottle.

\Viththese and other objects in view, as

will more fully hereinafter appear the invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and particularly pointed out in the appended claims, it being understood that various-changes in the form, proportions and arrangement of parts may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. 4

In the accompanying drawings :-Figure 1 is a face view of a milk bottle holder constructed in accordance with the invention,

. showing the same in normal position. Fig.

2 is a side view showingthe holder moved down under the weight of a bottle. Fig. 3 is a face view illustrating a slight modification of the device. Fig. 4 is a detail perspective view illustrating a further modification. 4

Similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout. the several figures of the drawings. i

The device forming the subject of the present invention is in the nature of a holder adapted to be attached to a doorway orany other suitable support for the purpose of holding a milk bottle or other article when delivered.

The base plate 10 is preferably formed of relatively heavy sheet metal or other suitable material and preferably will be provided with an enlarged rounded upper portion on as screwsoi: nails 11 6- s. e ably fo m hi ad e isi m t er n y. be la d i This plate is provided w th} suitableEopenings forthe passage devices Thesnpporti. roper f 'pr wi o is'll en r's l r ea s a a clip 12 h'avin i'rounded, entrance; ends-'13,

and the arms o the'clipiare:doubled-insbest I shown in Fig. 1, sons toifoi m" arear' stop'jli c to prevent. movenintj'of the bottle neck intocontact with the supportin idevieei" The arms of the clipjare' extends ,rear'wa rd and "thence are turned to form aj ir of fsprihg'i coils 15, and thence bent: to oral arms 16, 7 which at their terminals pass throughfsuitable openings formed in'the supportin'. plate andare riveted or otherwise secured in lace at the rear face of theplate. a practice, the clip or h der' will be 7 maintained normally an. approximately vertical position by the coils 15, as shown in Fig. 1, and on the deliveryof'tlle niilkbot 'tle or siliiilaif'iai'ticle, the of the bottle is thrust into the cli'p'an'd their thebottlei s clamping engagement with thebottleineck not only by reasonoftheelasticity 8 of the arms tl1emsclves,'but also from thesee-v ondary action of the spring c0ils15, so that these coils will perforni two functions, one to assist the clip'in gripping the neck of the bottle and the other to return the holder to 9 its vertical position after the bottle hasbeen removed. 4 j

All commercial milk bottles whether of half pint, intor quart size,'have'ne'cks of substantial y the same diameter so that the 9 holder may readily be used for bottles of any size and the diameter of' the clip may be changed in accordance with the character of the article which it is to support.

In the modified structure shown in Fig. 3, 1 the clip proper is shown at 12, The base portion of this clip is in the form of a plate 20 that is hinged to a small base plate 21 that is provided with openings for the assage of securing devices, and this base p ate 1 also carries a small leaf spring 22, the-upper end of which bears against the base portion of the clip and tends to hold the latter in a verticalposition nearly flat against the supporting surface so as to be when not in use.

In the construction shown in Fig. 4, the

out of the waytwo terminals of the clip are brought toether and are twisted and then shaped to our; a screw 23 by stampin or other suitable machinery, so that the lOldOl may be simply screwed in place on the doorway or other support.

' WVith a device constructed in accordance with this invention the milk bottles will be held up from the door step out of harms' way and in convenient position for removal.

What is claimed is 1. A bottle holder comprising a supporting member having curved spring jaws M'- ranged for engaging and sup orting the holding said su cal position, sa1 proportioned'to the weight of a neck of a bottle, yielding means or normally ortin member in a vertiyiel ing means being so ttl'c as to permit said supporting member to move down into a horizontal position against the actio'n thercofwhen a bottle is engaged with d jaws, substantially as described.

bottle support' comprising an'open clip formed of spring wire that is bent to form a pair of vertically disposed arms, the said arms being bent attheir inner ends to form a pair of spring supportingcoils that add to the resiliency of the clip arms proper, the coils being soproportione of a bottle as to permit the arms to sw ng down into a horizontal position,- substantially as described.

to the 'we1ght- 3. A bottle supporting clip formed ofspring wire that is bent to form a air of arms the wire of the arms being oubled and one of the doubled'portions extending across to form arear sto for the bottle, the terminal arms of the clip iieing thence bent to form a pair ofi spring-supporting coils that 

